ALL RED ROUTE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 March 1917, Page 2

ALL RED ROUTE.

———■■■ ■■ **tsfypf<" " v THE ESSAY COMPETITION. Mr Tom Pollard, who donated the s um of one guinea for an essay on the picture, "The All Red Route," has received the following letter from the judge, Yen. Archdeacon fork: — "I am enclosing you herewith the names 'of those whom I consider rank highest in the essays you have sent 1 me, entitled 'The All Red Route. r The competitors were not classified according to age. so I could' not take the ages of the children into account. It is scarcely fair, however, for a child of, say, 10 or 11 years of age to be marked on the same basis as a youth or maiden who attends the District High School and i 8 much older. The younger children naturally gained fewer marks in writing, composition, spelling, etc., and in recording their observations on the. 'All Red Route.' Taken as a whole, the essays are all remarkably gord, and it has been no easy task for me to select the best. I thought that the lairest method I could adopt would be to give 100 marks each for facts enumerated and described, composition, and mental observations recorded, and .50 marks CiU h for arrangement of ideas and neatness, for writing, and for grammar and spelling, making a total of 450 marks. T'.e total marks gained by the first three arc as follows : (Robert S. Bush 391 Nita Hopkins f. 390 Robert J. Harrington 381

"The marks for the other 15 essays range from 373, the next highest, to 348, the lowest. .

"A very good essay on.the advantages and benefits of the .'All Red Route' was written by, Gavin Dickson, but the writer gained very few marks under the first of my headings, as he did not attempt to describe the pictures which were shown on the screen. Such an essay could be written by one who had not s een the pictures. Must of the essays clearly indicate that the writers know how to use. their eyesight and are possessed of good powers of description. After critically perusing 18 essays of the 'All Red Route,' I can ■well imagine the excellence of the pictures shown, and that such films have a very high educational value. Would that more of such pictures appeared on the screens REXONA SOAP GIVES NATURAL BEAUTY-TO SKIN AND HAIR. That natural beauty of skin and hair -.which cannot be imitated, can be obtained by regular use of Rexona Skin and Facial Soap. Ordinary toilet soaps do not assert this influence. Many of them contain free alkali, which tends to dry the skin, and destroy its delicate texture. Even the best of such soaps can only cleanse; they cannot heal and protect the skin. (Rexona Soap contains the same soothing, healing antiseptic balsams as Rexona, the Rapid Healer, the value of which in the treatment of skin affections is known tbrouo-h----out the world. Simply use Rexona Skin and Facial- Soap regularly once or twice a day, and see if it does not quickly soothe and cleanse the pores, lessen the tendency to pimples, .arid'leaves' the' complexion clear, fresh-,-arid velvety;• Price 1/6 per tablet, Obtainable everywhere.—Advfc.